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U.S. carrier starts Philippine storm relief as Aquino comes under pressure

By means of Stuart Grudgings TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – A U.S. airplane provider “strike group” started unloading food and water to the storm-ravaged principal Philippines on Thursday, as President Benigno Aquino confronted mounting force to hurry up the distribution of supplies. While reduction efforts picked up, native authorities started burying […]

 
 

Palestinian peace talks team resigns: Abbas

Palestinian peace talks team resigns: Abbas

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday his peace negotiators had resigned over the lack of growth in U.S.-brokered statehood talks clouded by means of Israeli contract building. The advance would mark a new low level for the talks with Israel that resumed in July and which officials from either […]

 
 

Desperate Philippine typhoon survivors loot, dig up water pipes

Through Andrew R.C. Marshall and Stuart Grudgings TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – Desperation gripped Philippine islands devastated by way of Typhoon Haiyan as looting turned lethal on Wednesday and survivors panicked over shortages of meals, water and medication, some digging up underground water pipes and smashing them open. Five days after […]

 
 

Bombings target Iraq police, pilgrims, killing 19

As a minimum 19 people were killed in bomb attacks concentrated on Iraqi police and pilgrims on Wednesday, police and clinical sources mentioned, simply before the top of a Shi’ite Muslim spiritual pageant. No crew straight away claimed accountability for the attacks, which coincided with the holy ritual of Ashura, […]

 
 

Torture claims cast shadow over Sri Lanka’s Commonwealth summit

Torture claims cast shadow over Sri Lanka’s Commonwealth summit

With the aid of Frank Jack Daniel COLOMBO (Reuters) – Allegations of abuses in opposition to ethnic minority Tamils in Sri Lanka 4 years after the army received a civil battle against separatist rebels have put force on the federal government as it prepares to host a Commonwealth summit. Canadian […]

 
 

Egypt plans to lift state of emergency, curfew

Egypt plans to lift state of emergency, curfew

Egypt plans to carry a 3-month state of emergency and curfew on Tuesday, two days prior than expected, two executive sources and a security source stated. Egypt's army-backed authorities introduced the nightly curfew on August 14, when security forces forcibly ended the 2 major sit-ins via supporters of ousted Islamist […]

 
 

China vows ‘decisive’ role for markets, results by 2020

China vows ‘decisive’ role for markets, results by 2020

By way of Jason Subler and Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) – China's leaders pledged to let markets play a "decisive" role in the financial system as they unveiled a reform agenda for the subsequent decade on Tuesday, having a look to secure new drivers of future increase. China goals to […]

 
 

Kerry sees nuclear deal with Iran as diplomacy warms

Kerry sees nuclear deal with Iran as diplomacy warms

With the aid of Lesley Wroughton and Andrew Osborn ABU DHABI/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated on Monday he hoped an settlement on Iran's disputed nuclear program can be signed inside months and London and Tehran revived diplomatic ties, indicators of a warmer environment between the […]

 
 

Philippine typhoon death toll to rise as rescuers reach remote areas

Via Andrew R.C. Marshall and Manuel Mogato TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – Rescue workers tried to reach towns and villages within the relevant Philippines on Tuesday that had been cut off by a powerful hurricane, fearing the estimated demise toll of 10,000 might leap sharply, as relief efforts intensified with the […]

 
 

China to unveil 10-year reform plan, expectations toned down

China to unveil 10-year reform plan, expectations toned down

With the aid of Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) – China's leaders will unveil a reform agenda for the following decade on Tuesday, in the hunt for to steadiness the need to overhaul the arena's 2d-biggest financial system as it loses steam with retaining stability and to improve the Communist Birthday […]

 
 

Kerry sees Iran nuclear deal in months, will protect allies

Kerry sees Iran nuclear deal in months, will protect allies

With the aid of Lesley Wroughton and John Irish ABU DHABI/PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stated on Monday he hoped an agreement to end a dispute over Iran’s nuclear software can be completed within months, although Washington used to be no longer engaged in a race […]

 
 

Financier of Taliban-linked group shot dead in Pakistan

The executive financier of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network militant workforce has been shot dead in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, militant sources instructed Reuters on Monday. “Nasiruddin Haqqani used to be killed in Islamabad whereas visiting in a automobile with a few other unidentified folks,” one Taliban supply stated, adding […]

 
 

Philippine typhoon survivors beg for help as rescuers struggle

Philippine typhoon survivors beg for help as rescuers struggle

By means of Manuel Mogato and Roli Ng TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – Dazed survivors begged for help and scavenged for meals, water and drugs on Monday, as aid employees struggled to achieve victims of a perfect storm that killed an estimated 10,000 folks within the primary Philippines. As President Benigno […]

 
 

Iran nuclear deal remains elusive as split emerges in Western camp

Iran nuclear deal remains elusive as split emerges in Western camp

Through Louis Charbonneau and Yeganeh Torbati GENEVA (Reuters) – France warned of serious hindrances to a protracted-sought accord with Iran as unity amongst Western powers perceived to fray in talks on getting Tehran to curtail a nuclear program seen as a bomb possibility in exchange for reduction from economic sanctions. […]

 
 

‘Massive destruction’ as typhoon kills at least 1,200 in Philippines, says Red Cross

‘Massive destruction’ as typhoon kills at least 1,200 in Philippines, says Red Cross

Through Manuel Mogato TACLOBAN, Philippines (Reuters) – One of the most strongest typhoons ever to make landfall devastated the significant Philippines, killing greater than 1,000 folks in a single city alone and 200 in some other province, the Pink Cross estimated on Saturday, as experiences of high casualties began to […]